Advice on DV firewire editing for reasonable filesizes

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02 May 2003, 08:59 PM

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I got my firewire card today, got some footage of my old car on the rollers. Can anyone tell me the best compression method to use to shrink the file to a reasonable size, whilst leaving it watchable quality-wise.

I'm using Adobe Premier software by the way

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03 May 2003, 05:40 PM

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DivX 5 is what you want (http://www.divx.com). Compresses them down nicely...

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03 May 2003, 05:50 PM

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I just normally export the timeline as an Adobe MPEG, compresses down nicely (i.e. fit around 30-60mins on a CD), stays at fairly decent quality, and if you have the software to create a VCD, it will play on most DVD players nicely!